Sentences with phrase «debate about some fundamental»

«I find that extraordinarily ironic for a discipline that prides itself on spirited debate about fundamental issues,» Jones said.

If so, there is a chance that we may in this country generate a debate about fundamental national goals that is not limited to how to make the economy grow faster.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

«There is no scientific debate about the fundamentals of evolution,» he said.

There is no scientific debate about the fundamentals of evolution.

That continues because there's no intelligent debate about some fundamental principles.

Not exact matches

Missing from the analysis is any mention of the fundamental flaw in Canada's regulatory system that allows the debate about Vancouver's housing market to persist without resolution.

Last year in one of my blog posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model.

A dialogue about fundamental constitutional values attendant to constitutional adjudication must be focused upon the Constitution as a legal text, and, because it is a legal text, the debate must be grounded in legal sources and legal analysis.

But my main concern is to call for a fundamental debate about the kind of growth we want.

Some people found it tough; where they had thought there were fundamental facts about the Christian faith, now everything was up for debate.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

The real debate is not about whether the market economy is desirable or not, but about how citizens should harness the market system to serve ends that they consider fundamental.

Embedded in the debate about what register of language and what kind of words we might use in the Mass is a more fundamental, and vital, question: how valid is it to use any kind of human language to talk to, and about, God?

On a conceptual level, there is a keen interest within the business community evidenced by the fundamental debate about whether a business» sole role is to generate profits or whether businesses should be contributing more to society (World Economic Forum Leadership, 2015).

The Commons» European scrutiny committee's chair, arch Tory eurosceptic Bill Cash, said: «The prime minister needs to be aware, as he discusses these matters in the European Council, that the debate has moved on from specific concerns about individual issues to fundamental questions which involve our democracy.»

This feeling can only be addressed by a comprehensive and fundamental debate about the way we run organise our national civic and political life and a constitutional convention is the way to start it.

Currently, a fundamental public debate about the opportunities and risks associated with genetics research is taking place in Germany.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

This was Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture which brought worldwide debate about the apparently fundamental split in British society and education between the arts and the sciences.

A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.

Abstract: Currently one of the fundamental debates about promoting open access as part of the right to knowledge revolves around the increasing role of Information Technology and Communications (ICT) in everyday life.

Currently one of the fundamental debates about promoting open access as part of the right to knowledge revolves around the increasing role of Information Technology and Communications (ICT) in everyday life.

When underlying VALUES are deliberately identified during the discussions and debates about topics, issues and concerns raised in SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development) and fundamental British Values sessions, PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic education) lessons and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) slots, young citizens begin to appreciate the significance of how values provide standards, principles and signposts that guide decisions and actions.

However, Rajan (2009) debates this breaking down of the financial model while underestimating the political, social and economic risks should not have been very much of a surprise while the models relied entirely on hard information and ignored soft control variables such as the incentives of lenders to collect information about borrowers, which was one of the fundamental causes for their failure (Rajan et all., 2009).

The right to free speech, including the right to speak out about who should be elected to public office, is a fundamental American right, essential to democratic debate.

If the game here is to codify one set of pedagogical beliefs in an effort to reassert control over a rapidly decentralizing field then, as is often our way in education, we're about to have a big debate about something that misses more fundamental problems.

The debate is about the fundamental purpose of education: for the Sophists, the goal is power — economic, political, and social.

There is more to the debate than we can cover here, including fundamental philosophical issues about whose objectives and values should count in making schooling decisions.

The debate in France about the internats is particularly interesting, as it focuses attention on some of the fundamentals of any school: the profile of the intake, the school ethos and how the money is allocated.

Hidden behind the debate about turnaround programs, charter schools, standardized testing, evaluation methods and the common core curriculum rages a far more fundamental argument; what do we actually expect our public education to achieve... What is the purpose of public education?

In addition to fundamental discussions about the amount of public funding going toward public education, the mechanisms by which funds are allocated to schools within districts and to non-district charter schools, as well as the compatibility of funding models with innovations in instructional models, arise as current topics of finance - related debate.

This fundamental question has been lost in a heated debate about a draft proposal spearheaded by the Broad Foundation, the most controversial part of which includes a plan to accelerate charter school growth in LAUSD.

There are certainly lots of debates in health care but, in finance, we have different views on fundamental concepts about the way the world works and there are conflicting ideas accepted at business schools — an obvious one is the efficient market hypothesis, another is the question of whether volatility is risk.

The current debate about optimal sector and country weights in a stock market index is still ongoing and there are many different rivaling approaches like equal weighting, fundamental weighting, GDP - weighting or equal risk contribution or minimum variance.

Free2choose is an educational debate programme on conflicting human rights that was developed to encourage young people to think about the importance of fundamental rights.

For that is the power of great art, and great artists: it can instigate fundamental debates about humanity and the world we live in.

Trying to understand this debate (which I noted a few days back never stopped from the time of the first oil embargo) is not a question of who has better numbers or what is the temperature of the earth, but something much more fundamental about the US.

We agree, because the scientific debate has moved on from the fundamentals — there is no scientific debate about the fact that the globe is warming from human greenhouse gas emissions.

This is the fundamental question: what is it about our political culture, our democratic institutions, that makes us consciously and subconsciously limit our debate to what we think might be achievable, even when we know that to be insufficient?

Even more importantly, in terms of the federal legislative debate that the blog post is about — is the fundamental question of whether a Federal RES will get moshed together with an efficiency standard or a free - standing Energy Efficiency Resource Standard will be created along with a Renewable Energy Standard.

The fundamental debate is about the weight of evidence across many technically disparate topics.

A fundamental restructuring of the big law billing structure seems to be the most talked about measure, with the New York Times today picking up on the perennial law firm debate:

However, what we can do is to continue to look at our procedure with a self - critical eye and embrace debate about appropriate reforms to improve our system without jeopardising its fundamentals.

Even without this anomaly, it appears prudent to have a more substantial debate about these potentially fundamental changes in our legal system than that which has been generated so far by these relatively ad hoc plans and proposals.

Ms. Barnett and Ms. Jean's presentations covered the following: on July 14, 2016, they taught the students about the fundamentals of effective debating; on July 21, they instructed them on the importance of mutual respect and graciously challenging one another while debating; and on August 4, they hosted a formal debate at the University of Connecticut School of Law and gave the students the opportunity to employ all the tools and strategies discussed in the prior sessions.